docker-mcp

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A powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Docker operations, enabling seamless container and compose stack management through Claude AI.

• 🚀 Container creation and instantiation
• 📦 Docker Compose stack deployment
• 🔍 Container logs retrieval
• 📊 Container listing and status monitoring

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To try this in Claude Desktop app, add this to your claude config files:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docker-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "docker-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

To install Docker MCP for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx @smithery/cli install docker-mcp --client claude

• UV (package manager)
• Python 3.12+
• Docker Desktop or Docker Engine
• Claude Desktop

Add the server configuration to your Claude Desktop config file:

MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

<details> <summary>💻 Development Configuration</summary>

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docker-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory"